esahubble_opo1129b October 10th, 2011
Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Soummer (STScI)
This is an image of the star HR 8799 taken by Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) in 1998. A mask within the camera (coronagraph) blocks most of the light from the star. In addition, software has been used to digitally subtract more starlight. Nevertheless, scattered light from HR 8799 dominates the image, obscuring the faint planets.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1129b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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